Description
Contents: The view from the castle, Letters to the Editor, Phenomena, Comments and Notes, Around the Mall and beyond, The “Year of the Coast” focuses concerns about development on our disaster prone barrier islands, Superb Viking treasures from buried boards make landfall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson is once more at the center of a storm with his genius theories, For centuries preposterous pets – leashed lobsters to jeweled eels – have bestowed status on owners, Strings are pulled in Washington as puppeteers from 20 countries gather to practice their art, Mass grave at Crow Creek in South Dakota reveals how Indians massacered Indians in 14th-century attack, Einstein satelitte gives astronomers their first-look at X-ray objects in another galaxie, In Thai refugee camp, dedication of former court dancer helps preserve classical Cambodian ballet, Whitney Museum retrospective encompasses, for the first time, the lifework of realist Edward Hopper, The auto age in America spawned auctioneers, speed traps, overnight camps, road-races – and mobility, H.L. Mencken’s acerbic with both outraged and entertained the nation for half a century, Book Reviews, Additional Reading, September events at the Smithsonian, Smithsonian tours, The ennobling deed of pulling up the weeds.
Issue: September 1980
Condition: Very Good